Talk:OS

RFV discussion: April 2020–July 2022

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OS

O.S.

OD

O.D.

Latin. Tagged in diff. Also add OD. --Mittsloo (talk) 17:20, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

It is shorthand used by ophthalmologists in eyeglass prescriptions.^[1] I am not sure if this qualifies as Latin; we classify per os found in medical prescriptions as translingual. For the rest, now we have to find three durably archived eyeglass prescriptions :).  --Lambiam 08:05, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Here are three book uses: [2], [3], [4].  --Lambiam 08:14, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

per os does occur in English and German, so technically it's used translingually. In Latin however, it's SOP (per os).

As for the uses, they are English OS/O.S. & OD/O.D.. And here are mentions of German OS/O. S. & OD/O. D. as well as of German LA & RA: [5], [6]. So there might indeed be Translingual OS & OD. However, that does not make it a Latin term and does not attest a Latin term.

BTW: Latin O.S. & O.D. have an RFV-sense too.

--Marontyan (talk) 20:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

RFV-resolved, converted to Translingual. This, that and the other (talk) 09:01, 18 July 2022 (UTC)